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does it really matter

your not bothered about total all out rule from the EU then?

or that someones actually paid by the taxpayer to come up with this tripe?

I agree it is tripe, but, at the end of the day we'll still be able to buy a half dozen or dozen eggs they'll just have the weight on them

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!

when Brussels have sovereignty over the UK remember you said that

But if the weights on them then the quantity Isnt...thats the EU's idea of simplicity.

Now that works fine when you can see through the Packaging, but if you were to buy some of Mr kiplings Excedingly good cakes and all you could see was 300g grammes on the Cardboard packet then you wouldnt know for sure if it were 2, 4 or 6 cakes in the Box.........Its just so Bloody stupid!

All you really want to know is the quantity....or logically both quantity and weight!

Sadly hens do not have bog standard EU Compliant arses...the ovipositor of a hen cannot lay metric sized Chooks to order...

Why should the EU set up commitees to generate this kind of guff?...is it because they want to win our Hearts and minds by some strangely grotesque method of hammering everything British out of us?...If it is then they can go and Fech off in small Jerky movements..

Do you seriously think rural french, greek or italian farmers will sell by the Kg?...

once again, its all aimed at making the UK bow and scrape

The Europeans already sell by the Kg



You can tell you haven't done the shopping in your house for a while then Packets of bread rolls, cakes etc already have quantity and weight on them



Well all I can say is they should read everything before they agree to anything

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!

At the moment yes..but thats the Lunacy of the new EU proposals...they must show weight only and will no longer be allowed to show Weight and quantity...that means you cannot have 500G weight and Contents 6...the Loony EC says no...

Heres the Rub "Potty EU proposals would force shops to sell all food by weight - not by the number of items."




As for Doing the shopping...I do my bit...Pack of 8 razor blades and a Crunchy is my usual contribution to the shop in order to assist my Trolley Dolly Mr's...Im all heart you know

Go online set up an account with your favourite supermarket select all your usual stuff (Sizes quantity etc) save it as your shopping list.

Set the delivery time for when SWMBO is out but you are home and hey presto it's delivered you say to SWMBO "While you were out I did the shopping" instant brownie points

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Life? Don't talk to me about life!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjm2eslm6hI

£5 delivery on a £50 order, stores 5 miles from us

thats taking the pee when the van has 10 drops on it....

I only buy meat and vegetables at Butchers and Greengrocers. When a green grocer told me he would only be using SI units in future I told him I wanted 3.178kg of potatoes, 454g of apples and as he sold milk I would have 568ml.
We now agree that 3.178kg can have the nickname "Half a stone".
454g is infomally known as "a pound" and 568ml is requested as a "pint".

I notice that fast food chains sell Burgers singly and they are known as "Quarter Pounders" - will they soon be "113.5 grammers" due to the clowns in Brussels.

I do notice that younger passengers say to me - "it's about 200 meters" and older ones will say "Its about 200 yards". Strangely all speak in "Miles" for longer distances. Funniest of all, in meters, yards or miles they are always wrong, vastly under-estimating or wildly over-estimating.

As to eggs, I along with many others will continue to order and buy them in multiples of 6 (half dozen), 12 (dozen), and occaisionally by the 30 (Two and a half dozen or more likely Tray). If the shopkeeper then wants to weigh them should I ask for them to be weighed without the wraps?

Of course in the US it is confusing that unlike our 20 fluid ounce pint, theirs is 16 fluid ounces. This means our (imperial) gallon weighs Ten pounds (in water) as a "Pint of water weighs a pint and a quarter" as an American pint weighs a pound - their gallon is only Eight pounds. As a result when price per gallon is quoted in the US it reflects a unit that is only 80% of ours.

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Chris The Fish

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdlyi5mc ... re=related

could i make 1 point?































WE WON THE FECKING WAR!

I don't need to concede to your obvious point, you may notice I wish to keep the "Imperial" weights and measures.
I would point out the strongest "resistance" to the Germans in occupied lands was Norway. Norway has not joined the EU and as far as I am aware expresses no interest in doing so. Another country in the middle of Europe that (without the resistance as it was not occupied) is in the same position is Switzerland.
Also, it was not the Second World War that introduced SI - without checking in depth I believe it was an edict by Napolean Bonaparte (I immediately concede that we won that war as well).

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Chris The Fish

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdlyi5mc ... re=related

Metric spanners

WHY?

WE WON THE GOD DAMN WAR!

they should all be using BS, BSF and whitworth.....

and PS---- what happened to BRAKE HORSE POWER?

who signed away our birthright?

when will we have to drive on the wrong side of the road?